ISTQB Foundation Online Practice Exam

ISTQB Foundation Mock Test

This online ISTQB mock exam with answers is aimed to test your knowledge in Software Testing before taking the ISTQB Foundation certification. The questions are related to the ISTQB Foundation Software Testing Foundation Syllabus.

The result you get after completing the “ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Level” practice exam should not be taken as an indication for the result of the real exam!

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Q.1. Which of the following provides the BEST description of a test case ?

A. A document specifying a sequence of actions for the execution of a test. Also known as test script or manual test script

B. A set of input values and expected results, with execution preconditions and execution postconditions, developed for a particular test condition

C. An attribute of a system specified by requirements documentation (for example reliability, usability or design constraints) that is executed in a test

D. An item or event of a system that could be verified by one or more test conditions, e.g., a function, transaction, feature, quality attribute, or structural element

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Q.2. Which of the following statements is a MAJOR objective of testing ?

A. To prevent defects

B. To validate the project plan works as required

C. To gain confidence in the development team

D. To make release decisions for the system under test

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Q.3. Which of the following is an example of a failure in a car cruise control system?

A. The developer of the system forgot to rename variables after a cut-and-paste operation

B. Unnecessary code that sounds an alarm when reversing was included in the system

C. The system stops maintaining a set speed when the radio volume is increased or decreased

D. The design specification for the system wrongly states speeds in km/h

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Q.4. Which of the following is a defect rather than a root cause (in a fitness tracker)?

A. Because he was unfamiliar with the domain of fitness training, the author of the requirements wrongly assumed that users wanted heartbeat in beats per hour

B. The tester of the smartphone interface had not been trained in state transition testing, so missed a major defect

C. An incorrect configuration variable included for the GPS function could cause location problems during daylight saving times

D. Because she had never worked on wearable devices before, the designer of the user interface misunderstood the effects of reflected sunlight

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Q.5. As a result of risk analysis, more testing is being directed to those areas of the system under test where initial testing found more defects than average. Which of the following testing principles is being applied?

A. Beware of the pesticide paradox.

B. Testing is context dependent.

C. Absence-of-errors is a fallacy.

D. Defects cluster together.

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Q.6. Given the following test activities and tasks:

a. Test design
b. Test implementation
c. Test execution
d. Test completion

1. Entering change requests for open defect reports
2. Identifying test data to support the test cases
3. Prioritizing test procedures and creating test data
4. Analyzing discrepancies to determine their cause

Which of the following BEST matches the activities with the tasks?

a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1

a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4

a-3, b-2, c-4, d-1

a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4

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Q.7. Which of the following BEST describes how value is added by maintaining traceability between the test basis and test artifacts?

A. Maintenance testing can be fully automated based on changes to the initial requirements.

B. It is possible to determine if a new test case has increased coverage of the requirements.

C. Test managers can identify which testers found the highest severity defects.

D. Areas that may be impacted by side-effects of a change can be targeted by confirmation testing.

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Q.8. Which of the following qualities is MORE likely to be found in a tester than in a developer?

A. Experience on which to base their efforts

B. Ability to see what might go wrong

C. Good communication with team members

D. Attention to detail

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Q.9. Given the following statements about the relationships between software development activities and test activities in the software development lifecycle:

1. Each development activity should have a corresponding testing activity
2. Reviewing should start as soon as final versions of documents become available
3. The design and implementation of tests should start during the corresponding
development activity
4. Testing activities should start in the early stages of the software development
lifecycle

Which of the following CORRECTLY shows which are true and false?

A. True – 1, 2; False – 3, 4

B. True – 2, 3; False – 1, 4

C. True – 1, 2, 4; False – 3

D. True – 1, 4; False – 2, 3

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Q.10. Given that the testing being performed has the following attributes:

• based on interface specifications;
• focused on finding failures in communication;
• the test approach uses both functional and structural test types.

Which of the following test levels is MOST likely being performed?

A. Component integration testing

B. Acceptance testing

C. System testing

D. Component testing

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Q.11. Which of the following statements about test types and test levels is CORRECT?

A. Functional and non-functional testing can be performed at system and acceptance test levels, while white-box testing is restricted to component and integration testing

B. Functional testing can be performed at any test level, while white-box testing is restricted to component testing

C. It is possible to perform functional, non-functional and white-box testing at any test level

D. Functional and non-functional testing can be performed at any test level, while whitebox testing is restricted to component and integration testing

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Q.12. Which of the following statements BEST compares the purposes of confirmation testing and
regression testing?

A. The purpose of regression testing is to ensure that all previously run tests still work correctly, while the purpose of confirmation testing is to ensure that any fixes made to one part of the system have not adversely affected other parts

B. The purpose of confirmation testing is to check that a previously found defect has been fixed, while the purpose of regression testing is to ensure that no other parts of the system have been adversely affected by the fix

C. The purpose of regression testing is to ensure that any changes to one part of the system have not caused another part to fail, while the purpose of confirmation testing is to check that all previously run tests still provide the same results as before

D. The purpose of confirmation testing is to confirm that changes to the system were made successfully, while the purpose of regression testing is to run tests that previously failed to ensure that they now work correctly

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Q.13. Which of the following statements CORRECTLY describes a role for impact analysis in maintenance?

A. Impact analysis is used when deciding if a fix to a maintained system is worthwhile

B. Impact analysis is used to identify how data should be migrated into the maintained system

C. Impact analysis is used to decide which hot fixes are of most value to the user

D. Impact analysis is used to determine the effectiveness of new maintenance test cases

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Q.14. Which of the following statements CORRECTLY reflects the value of static testing?

A. By introducing reviews, we have found that both the quality of specifications and the time required for development and testing have increased

B. Using static testing means we have better control and cheaper defect management due to the ease of removing defects later in the lifecycle

C. Now that we require the use of static analysis, missed requirements have decreased and communication between testers and developers has improved

D. Since we started using static analysis, we have found coding faults that we would not have found by only performing dynamic testing

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Q.15. Which of the following sequences BEST shows the main activities of the work product review process?

A. Initiate review – Reviewer selection – Individual review – Issue communication and analysis – Rework

B. Planning & preparation – Overview meeting – Individual review – Fix– Report

C. Preparation – Issue detection – Issue communication and analysis – Rework – Report

D. Plan – Initiate review – Individual review – Issue communication and analysis – Fix defects & report

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